… Annual or perennial, erect to prostrate, often weedy grasses, the slender racemes
digitate or approximate on a short axis. Type species, Digitaria sanguinalis. Name from …

… This work does not have a fault frequently ascribed to plant manuals: that of not … common
grass manuals. The most notable variation from the widely used Hitchcock’s manual of grasses …

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1950 edition, published in paperback form in 2 volumes.
Volume 1 (ISBN 0 486 22717 0) contains descriptions of genera and species in 11 tribes, while …

… Grass Manual Project (GMP) was to develop a singlevolume work modeled on Hitchcock’s
Grasses of the United States. … Design: The design of this manual was dictated by the need to …

… throughout the United States revere the Manual of Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock, …
to today's taxonomists as the Hitchcock's Manual of Grasses of the United States used to be.” …

… THE value of the grass crop of the United States is much greater than is generally supposed…
The total value of all farm crops produced in the United States in 1909 was $5,487,161,000. …

… a general work on the grasses of the United States. For several … , particularly respecting the
grasses of the Pacific coast and of … True Grasses," as trans lated by Scribner and Southworth. …

… This common tropical African forage grass was introduced rather recently into the semitropical
parts of the United States and has been tried at several experiment stations in tropical …

… the end of their manual page in the GRASS users manual, however, … us to extend our most
cordial thanks to all of you. If you contributed to GRASS at any point during its existence, let us …

… us. Credit goes to all collectors who braved the elements and other obstacles to fulfill their
passion for collecting grasses … barium and editor of the Grass Manual Project, for her support …